ING Bank has today appointed a new global head of structured export finance.

Due to the political and economic uncertainty surrounding Pakistan, international financing has been hard to come by for the South Asian country. Nonetheless,in July...

Coalition’s H1 2016 report on corporate and investment banks shows a continued decrease in trade finance volumes globally with Asia-Pacific bearing the brunt of the...

Fintech, via mobile platforms, is the best way to ensure liquidity for African SMEs struggling in a climate of worldwide withdrawal from risky markets and small-scale...

At the end of last month, JBIC signed a $63.75 million loan agreement with JSAT as part of $255 million facility with three Japanese banks for the financing of the...

Nokia — Finland’s premier telecoms company — is in the process of finalising its takeover of France’s Alcatel-Lucent in a $16.6 billion deal that will propel the ailing...

At the beginning of the 2016, Factors Chain International (FCI) and International Factors Group (IFG) merged to form the world’s largest factoring network. The...

Telefonica has tapped the export finance market for an innovative, catch-all facility to finance the mass procurement plans of its global subsidiaries. The Spanish...

Canada's export credit agency Export Development Canada (EDC) has provided its first guarantee for a loan from international banks to a Turkish corporate last month.

CC Solutions' Valerie Colville discusses how the US export credit agency’s charter came to expire on 30 June, what is likely to come next, and what can be done to bring...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has today launched the ICC Global Export Finance Committee – an export finance working group, chaired by Eric de Jonge, global...

KfW IPEX-Bank, the international export and project financier, has collaborated with Danish export credit agency Eksport Kredit Fonden (EKF) to provide senior-debt...

Trade credit insurer Euler Hermes has appointed three regional chief executive officers (CEO) to its German, Austrian, Swiss (DACH), World Agency and French offices, and...

US telecommunications company Sprint Corporation has signed three new vendor financing facilities for the purchase of network equipment and related services from key...

More than 400 trade finance practitioners gathered in Turkey’s cultural and commercial capital Istanbul this week for the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Banking...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has appointed six new advisory board members to its Banking Commission, and three new Technical Advisors on the ICC Trade...

Hesham Zakai reports on changes taking place within the International Forfaiting Association.

Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) has made three senior appointments in Paris and Hong Kong to further strengthen the bank’s capabilities in the...

The International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA), formerly the International Forfaiting Association (IFA), has undergone an ambitious revamp focused on playing a...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim) has arranged a $150 million financing facility for Mauritius-based telecommunications company Econet Wireless Global (Econet)....